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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1902
Page
4
A flag first raised over Fort Donelson after its February 16 1862 surrender to General Grant has been gifted to Colorado for the state capitol war relic collection. The hunting-sized eight by ten foot flag shows heavy wear.
The article recalls an early form of football in Japan linked to Emperor Toba Ir and a palace club, contrasts Eastern work ethos with Western vigor, notes the French telegraph pioneer Victor Nimault and his multi transmission system, mentions lava dust from Mont Pelee collectors in New York, and details the 1772 Papandayang eruption reducing height from 9000 to 5000 feet and burying forty villages.
The fragment notes Teneriffe and Chimborazo and Cotopaxi among the world’s tallest active cones with heights and bases. It then shifts to palmistry, stating the fourth finger length as a key sign, linking long straight little fingers to leadership and success, and describing finger shapes as indicators of business path and tact.
Naval appropriation and canal bills dominate Senate action. House debates violence penalties and supports a presidential tomb move. Manila cable project advances while isthmian canal funding grows. Passenger passports for Porto Rico and the Philippines approved amid irrigation discussions. Congressional inquiry into Philippine conditions requested.
May fire losses reach 14.86 million in US and Canada while baseball standings shift in the American league. Roosevelt s party travels to West Point for the centennial amid resignations and promotions. A deadly fire in Saratoga, a Chicago sanitarium blaze, and a Minnesota tornado claim lives and wreck property. Prison escapes, mining explosions, and labor news intertwine with weather and crop reports.
A snapshot of early 20th century news items shows President Roosevelt delivering the West Point address at the centennial celebration and the ceremony ending the academy commemoration. Other notes cover labor strife, fires, tornadoes, elections, and international concerns, including Cuban reciprocity talks.
The coronation gift of England to King Edward will be a large national hospital fund. Whitelaw Reid, American envoy, was named a doctor of Lowe by Cambridge University. A fire in a London tenement killed nine people.
St Louis bond issue for the world’s fair sold at one cent premium per thousand. Texas cattle shipped to restock farms. 650 head moved from Pensacola. New York university grants master of letters to Miss Helen Miller Gould. American Shipping syndicate reportedly offers Cunard fleet for 55.5 million. Viceroy Liu Kun Yi insists on silver indemnity payments against foreign wishes. New York to build a 20 story, 10 million dollar hotel. United Presbyterian Assembly receives union overture with Reformed church. Illinois Audubon warns Chicago milliners against using birds on hats. Columbia University grants Doctor of Laws to Samuel L. Clemens. German experts say borax in humans slows data and albumen absorption after tests on four men. Carnegie gives second cousin Harriet Lattder a million dollars on marriage to Mrs J. Greenway. Over 1 million dollars burned in Colonial Bank, St Pierre. City’s total property loss about 40. Foreign trade bureau notes imitations of American goods hurting exports.
A June 13 tornado overturned the Ravenna steamer at Maquoketa chute, four drowned including Capt. John Hoy and Byron Trask, and Louis Walker and Dell La Crosse, 19, were among the dead. The Teal saved 15 survivors. In Sigourney the Harris Nickel Plate circus tent toppled, injuring 25. Clara Campbell 20 suffered possible serious back injuries. Samuel Utterbeck injured in the head.
In Kittanning Pennsylvania on Thursday afternoon Andrew Hileman aged 55 Kirk Bailey aged 19 were drowned while attempting to rescue a boy named Kirk Bailey who was entangled in a fishing net at a sink hole on Crooked Run. Dwight Bailey aged 43 was seriously injured. The group of about 16 from the Bailey and Hileman families were fishing when the net became snagged and failed to release. Hileman rushed to aid the boy but also became entangled and was unable to escape.
Bloomington Illinois June 13 Wire reports show more McLean county tornado victims with Cora Reynolds two years old killed by flying debris and her mother critically injured. Storm wrecks church and barns, cattle and hogs die, farm fence driven through a plank, boxcars blown eight miles from Farmer City to Mansfield, restoration expected after a week.
West Point N Y June 13 the centennial celebration closed with diploma presentations to the graduating class. President Roosevelt distributed diplomas while shaking hands with each cadet. Speakers included Congressman Dick Secre tary Root and Gen Miles. A clash over a kettle ended fatally later in Chicago as Niles Brewster a cook was stabbed by Edward Kuhn.
In Armstrong county a fatal boating accident left Dwight Bailey and his son entangled in a net. Dwight’s brother A B Bailey managed to reach the shore with the unconscious father, while both Dwight and the youth died along with Mr Hileman. Families on the bank endured agonized scenes as the tragedy unfolded.
The Marquette Michigan great camp Knights of Maccabees voted to amend its constitution extending jurisdiction beyond the state and rename the order to Knights of Modern Maccabees to avoid confusion with the supreme camp. They also limited bank deposits to 50 000 to reduce defalcation risk. Maj N S Boynton named commander. Thomas Watson re elected record keeper.
was hanged Tuesday in St. Petersburg, after an unsuccessful night attempt on Lieut. Gen. Von Wahl, governor of Vilsne, a report from June 13 states. The execution confirms the authorities’ action against Hirsch Lekert following the May 19 incident.
Watered stock is sold by M. Taylor at the Helphia Evening Bulletin. The ad promotes cord stopping remedies and quinine tablets with a stated price.
A garbled OCR passage mentions Bristol Channel tides, English tobacco, a village named Sista, Europe’s languages, a monument to Princes Voy and the late duke of Ams, Valentino park at Tunis, oranges kept in airy rooms, and a 1628 lat grant by New Ea Endicott and five others to the Pacific miles north of the Mer miles south of Charles.
After twenty years of illness hospital and home care, William Cater’s wife improved dramatically after taking Dodd’s Kidney Pills. The husband credits the treatment with lifting neuralgia rheumatism and kidney trouble, noting she is nearly well and their son rejoices.
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